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Word: guettar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1943-1943
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...shocked by the first scandal in the U.S. Army High Command in World War II. It centered on a hero of Casablanca, El Guettar and Sicily: gaudy, profane Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr., Commander of the U.S. Seventh Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: War's Underside | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...time to cover the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, later transferred to the New York Herald Tribune, reached Oran three days after the A.E.F. landed in North Africa. He covered the Casablanca conference, was with our troops when they went into action at Medjez-el-Bab, Gafsa, El Guettar and Fondouk, then marched into Tunis with the British First Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Controlled Steam. One of the chief exponents of the modern treatment is Major Frederick Hanson, an intrepid psychiatrist who has studied battle neuroses on three Commando raids, including Dieppe, and in the front lines at Maknassy and El Guettar. Says he: "It is amazing how much difference it makes to get at these men early. It's like releasing steam before it has a chance to build up to explosive point in a kettle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spit It Out, Soldier | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

After the planes had gone a hush settled over the battlefield. Soldiers left their foxholes and stopped to chat with one an other. In the strange quiet, men's spirits began rapidly to soar. Chuck Horner said: "This is the hardest battle we've had since El Guettar. I think"cross your fingers"we're going to get Troina tonight." Another Night. Except for the small pocket on our right, the Germans seemed to have departed. Chuck Horner chose a patrol to scout the approaches to the town. As the sun sank behind the hills, casting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: THE FALL OF TROINA | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...interim afternoon, during El Guettar, Allen sat at tea with another officer and a TIME correspondent in the oasis that was his headquarters. He talked of home, of his wife, of Terry Jr. and of how he wanted the boy to be a polo player, of his men and of how "all this talk about Division spirit just means that the men won't let the other men down." His philosophy of the war he gave in four words: "It's crazy, this war." The correspondent jotted down these notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF SICILY: A Matter of Days | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

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